GERMAN REPARATION

Otago Witness, Issue 3511, 28 June 1921, Page 20

GERMAN REPARATION

GOVERN MEAT’S .POLICY. BERLIN, June 21. Dr Wirth (Chancellor), in addressing the non-Socialist trade unions, declared himself sincerely determined to prosecute a policy of straightforwardness abroad and genuine democracy at home. He said that Germany demanded Upper Silesia as an expression of the democratic will uf the population.

Questioned as to whether any of th<3 Allied Powers could ignore the plebiscite, he said that the European wounds would never close if the democratic freedom of self-determination was impaired. Upper Silesia would become the centre of a conflagration for a century if the German rights were injured, and Europe would never get over a second catastrophe without tlie collapse of civilisation. Every 7 nation must speedily take up this idea of reducing to a minimum unreproductive outlay on militarism. Dr AN irtli concluded : “ The cry goes out to the workers of all lands to see that what Germany 7 pays is -employed for the benefit of the workers of the whole of the suffering world." Dr Wirth announced that Germany’s revenue hast year amounted to over 45 milliards of marks. GERMANY FULFILS CONDITIONS. LONDON, June 21. In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain said that Germany had either actually fulfilled, or was in the course of fulfilling, all the terms of the Allies’ recent ultimatum. FRENCH COLOURED TROOPS. CAPETOWN, June 21. Owing to alleged outrages by 7 French coloured troops, a meeting at Pretoria representing the Women's National and Women’s South African Parties decided, to cable General Smuts, asking him to do liis utmost to get coloured troops removed from the Rhine occupation zone.